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Converse selects Hoffman to lead school of music.


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 has appointed Miles Hoffman as dean of the Petrie School of Music.

Hoffman earned a bachelor of arts with cum laude cum lau·de  
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 honors from Yale University Yale University, at New Haven, Conn.; coeducational. Chartered as a collegiate school for men in 1701 largely as a result of the efforts of James Pierpont, it opened at Killingworth (now Clinton) in 1702, moved (1707) to Saybrook (now Old Saybrook), and in 1716 was  and a master of music from the Juilliard School. He has spent the better part of his life educating others about music. Hoffman is known to most Americans through his music commentaries for National Public Radio's flagship program Morning Edition and for Performance Today, on which he provided weekly commentary for 13 years. He is author of The NPR NPR

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 Classical Music Companion: Terms and Concepts from A to Z, now in its eighth printing from the Houghton Mifflin Company. He is also the founder and artistic director of The American Chamber Players.

Hoffman will continue his NPR commentaries and his performance career with The American Chamber Players.

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Date:Aug 1, 2007
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